Microformats Puns

Hey there,

I'm a web developer who is relatively new to SEO. I've used JSON-LD and Schema to enable Rich Snippets and have found it fairly straight forward.

However, I've recently been asked to configure a site's rich snippets to produce results like these: https://imgur.com/a/E1EZvW0 (The Flowering and Shade values specifically)

To me, these look like custom values, but I can't find any clear information on how to generate this kind of content.

I have recently discovered Microformats (http://microformats.org/wiki/h-product), although everything I read feels very outdated.

Are Microformats the answer? Will they produce the results in the image above? When I inspect the site in the image linked above I can't see any evidence of Microformats.

I'm a bit confused – can anybody help? 🤞🏼

Thank you!

Is this important Brothers? And how to implement

I remember reading about microformats a while ago (I can't remember where) and I've used them for contact information ever since because frankly it takes about 30 seconds and doesn't hurt anything.

I was just wondering if they actually effect anything, does it help with SEO on local listings or does it have some other use that I'm not aware of?

Is anyone familiar with the usage of structured markup (microformats or schema.org or whatever) to improve the functioning of assistive technology?

I know there are schema.org entities that can describe the accessibility features of the page, but are there any standards or examples around structured markup that control how the page interacts with tools like screen readers, to provide information that they can use in real-time while assisting on a particular page of content?

For example: if I had an itemscope of "Article," then within that I had an element with an itemprop of "headline", is there assistive technology that might make use of that information to function better or differently?

Or is that against the ethos of assistive technology altogether? I understand if those tools would want to work specifically with the content of the page, not a subset of the content.

Any experience or knowledge anyone can share here?

Hey guys, I just wanted to know your opinions on microdata in websites, what each one does differently, which is growing and which is failing.

The two big ones I know about are schema.org, and Microformats2. I don't really know which is 'better' in terms of functionality and usability by search engines and other tools, but which is better?

What other features does using these technologies allow? I know from this Microformats2 video that we can easily add contacts, events and locations on mobile devices. I also know that schema.org formats allows us to easily have rich snippets indexable. Does google understand the microformats2?

I don't know if this is better on webdev, or SEO so I posted to both.

I want to do semantic HTML, and HTML5 has the dandy "itemprop" and family. Schema.org looks nice, but there are seemingly valid complaints of "it's not an open standard" and "it leads to vocabulary lock-in".

I like microformats, but having itemprop, it seems like a waste to be using class to specify semantic info (as per microformats). So, I tried using microformats with itemprop... but a problem showed up quickly: An item must have a single itemtype, so I can't convert my blog's template to microformats-on-microdata: my blog posts are marked up as hAtom and xFolk... but now that's not allowed.

What are your thoughts?

Examples like this make it seem so, but I can't find any official statement.

Which do you use?

I'm having some issues relating the url of an organization to the organization itself - it's wanting to represent it as a personal url instead. Note: this is in the footer of the page, it's meant to represent the owner of the site (ergo, the address tag).

Here is the markup:

<address class="vcard">
	<a href="http://www.somesite.com/" class="url fn org">Some Place</a><br />
	<abbr class="adr geo" title="40.000000;-73.000000">
		<span class="street-address">123 Street St.</span>, 
		<span class="locality">Townville</span>, 
		<span class="region">NY</span> <span class="postal-code">10458</span>
	</abbr>
</address>

using H2VX and importing into Outlook, all the info is screwed up - the url is Personal not Business, the address isn't even getting filled in, etc

with Google webmaster tools Rich Snippets Testing Tool, it gets it right EXCEPT that the url is not relating with the organization

AHHH!!! Any help would be appreciated.

Does anyone have an example of a website effectively using micro formats? I'm not quite getting what all I need to be doing and I think if I see it i could figure it out pretty quickly.

http://schema.org/

So I keep hearing about microformats / microdata from schema.org, it looks nice and all, and I see a couple of specific use-cases (for reviews, events, etc), but if a website doesn't fall within those use-cases, then what's the point? Does a 'normal' website benefit from them?

What are your stories / opinions about microformats?